Well, it’s been nearly a month, over a month actually since I put a new edition out. My how time flies when you are having fun. Let’s see, where to start? Since we last got together much has happened in the world. Lets take a look at some of it, eh?
Washington DC is as usual drowning in a sea of its own crap. Obama’s budget proposal was defeated in a Democrat controlled Senate by a vote of 97-0. Even his own cronies can’t go along with all this anymore, but none of them have the balls to actually fix it.
The world has seen the death of Osama bin Laden finally. That’s got to be a good thing. Maybe at least in the short time, the people in the world can breathe a little easier. The problem with terrorists though is that they are like roaches. You have to kill them all to solve the problem.
Joplin, Missouri sadly has become the site of the most deadly tornado since 1947 I think they said. At the time of this writing the death toll was 125, many hundreds hurting, and thousands needing places to live and work. In a path ¾ of a mile wide and 6 miles long, not much was left standing. Houses, apartment complexes, a high school, Wal-Mart store, Home Depot, and St. Johns Hospital all took a direct hit from an EF-5 tornado. They’ll be a long time picking up the pieces from this one.
Joplin wasn’t alone in the crazy weather. The little town of Demming, Arkansas was pretty well obliterated by a tornado a couple days later. Lots of other places have been hit as well. There have been more than 80 this week alone, and at least 136 deaths. So far, there have been more than 1000 tornadoes and more than 500 deaths in the US this year…so far. May is the prime month, and as screwed up as the weather patterns have been I would not be surprised to see this trend continue. The National Weather service says that 2004 was the worst year for the number of tornadoes, with 1817 nationwide. However, 1925 was the deadliest year, recording 794 tornado related deaths. Let’s hope these are not records we break this year, or any other for that matter.
And all that damage and death has been accompanied by some of the worst flooding in history as well. And of course there have been several reports around the country of people dying because of driving on flooded roads or bridges. There were two women and two children in this area who were killed by that very thing. Please folks…don’t drive into deep water. Turn around, don’t drown.
On a more positive note, at least for some…Oprah is finally off the air. She’s being replaced by Dr. Oz. I had hopes for a car show, or outdoors show of some sort, but I guess it just wasn’t in the cards. Two of the soap operas are done now two, but I can’t recall their names right off. There ‘s three times slots right there…three opportunities to improve daytime tv by leaps and bounds, but will they do it? We could have off road racing, hunting and fishing shows, monster truck rally coverage, but no. Ain’t no hope for daytime tv folks.
Well, that’s all for this one. I will try to do a better job of posting. I appreciate all my readers and I hope that you find these interesting. I don’t pretend to be an expert on any of the subjects but I do like to get a discussion going. If any of this gets you to think about what’s happening, I have accomplished my mission.
